[Koha] Koha 2.2.5 roadmap

[Paul POULAIN]

Hi,

some news about 2.2.5 roadmap.
It should be released as christmas gift, at the end of next week, or 
maybe january, 2nd.
French libraries are testing this version.
It almost only fixes bugs.

Merry & holy christmas to everybody.


Here the Release Notes of the future version :

BUGFIXES
=== ACQUISITION ===
* suggestion/acquisition bugfixes :
	- 200 field is no more splitted in 2 parts
	- author is after title in UNIMARC (dirty solution, but mySQL has a 
strange behaviour)
	- when the book is recieved, the suggestion is marked "available" and a 
mail is sent
* printing stylesheet dropped ALL <p> (hiding too many things in order 
printing)

=== CATALOGUING ===
* Repeated subfield in authority were not being reported in the biblio 
while cataloguing
* when AuthoBarcode=ON and MARC=ON the barcode was not calculated 
automatically. Now, the barcode will be calculated (and any manual entry 
discarded during save)
* adding a feature to enable reordering of subfields in MARC editor (can 
be considered as a bug ? at least one of my libraries think that yes !)
* when a note is added to items it was not stored into non MARC-DB
* permission required to use a plugin was wrong. Changed to 
"editcatalogue", more convenient.
* if the last field was an authority, the authority report generated a 
javascript error (going after array size)

=== AUTHORITIES ===
* fixing bug in summary (separator before subfield was in fact after)
* fixing bug in authority order : authorities are not ordered 
alphabetically instead of no order. Requires all the dataset to be 
retrieved, but the benefits is important !
* no need to do a search on an authority when the authority has no MARC 
field (like EDITORS pseudo authority)

=== SERIALS ===
* Ordering bull-home better : by title

=== CIRCULATION ===
* minor bugfix : showing date in format from systempreferences

=== REPORTS ===
* Lot of bugfixes in borrower issues, catalogue issues, issues stats

=== ALL ===
* bugfixes in ldap auth (bugfixes from 2.2.4, 2.2.3 was not buggy)
	
=== OPAC ===
* adding dashes in isbn in opac-detail.pl
* translation bug ISSN translated to ISBN in french , very annoying 
mistake ! + some other translations
* ordering by acquisition date was buggy.
	
IMPROVEMENTS

=== ACQUISITION ===
* added a menu & a screen to see late issues attached to a bookseller.

=== CIRCULATION===
* In overdue list, Added some filter features :
- filter on borrower firstname, surname or cardnumber. **This can be 
discussed and changed**
- filter on borrowercategory
- filter on itemtype
- filter on branch
- show all current issues.
* Added a reserve management page in circulation module. It basically 
displays all the reservations not cancelled.
* Adding a systempreference to notice the library before departure of a 
borrower. when borrower leaves the library in less than 
'NotifiyBorrowerDeparture', the circulation desk shows it.

=== CATALOGUING ===
* as the MARC editor begins to be really heavy, i've also added a 
marc_hide systempref. It hides all marc features not requested by 
libraries that want MARC but not too much. It hides MARC tag & subfield 
code, reordering buttons as well as indicators. by default, hide_marc is off

=== OPAC ===
* by default, recent acquisitions are done on 30 days.
* New systempreference : OpacPasswordChange if set to Yes (default) the 
user can change it's password. If set to No, he can't. Useful for 
libraries with LDAP auth, where the password is checked in LDAP, not in 
Koha, thus Koha can't change it

=== SERIALS ===
* ordering lists by biblio title
* when adding a subscription and searching a biblio, you can filter on 
itemtype (useful as libraries usually have one or few itemtypes specific 
for serials)

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)